Rock is usually at its biggest and best when it's insistent, and there's nothing more insistent than the rock anthem, the kind of song that has stirred up and fired up audiences in stadiums around the world. This two-disc set collects several of these anthems, although exactly what makes a rock anthem a rock anthem becomes less clear when the tracks assembled here range from Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" to Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell," Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes," Mountain's "Mississippi Queen," and the Guess Who's "American Woman," among others. Everything collected here is certainly fervent and urgent and plays big, which, come to think of it, is probably the base definition of what a rock anthem is. ~ Steve Leggett